New Miami Vice Trailer

I am looking for some feedback on the camera they used to shoot Miami Vice (the video segments). The new trailer came out yesterday and so much of it looks like video--a lot more so then the superman trailers. Does anyone know why this would be? Any thoughts? I would love to learn more about the HD cameras that are being used on these large budget films.

Looks really nice -- very M. Mann'ish.

The 35mm stuff really sticks out, looks like they may have even pushed it a stop (really grainy). Again, any thoughts? Take a look:

"Company 3 scanned and manipulated HD and film footage for Collateral at 1K resolution because it was the right aesthetic."

Personally I think the look is absolutely shocking. Why not just shoot on Digibeta and transfer to bloody VHS, save himself a couple of hundred thousand dollars? Oh dear, I may have just encouraged a slew of furious replies with that last comment...

2K is 2048x1556 there no way obtain true 2K resolution form the Viper or F900.

But there's no reason to not post it in HD rez, so why use 1K? It doesn't make a lot of sense. Maybe they mean 1.9K, i.e. HD instead of 2K data, when they say "1K", who knows.

As far as the Viper (1080P HD) not being capable of 2K, it's a bit of a technicality since a "2K scan" of an Academy / standard 1.85 / anamorphic frame is only 1828 pixels across (we may scan their full aperture at 2048 across first, but all we are using picture-wise is 1828 pixels across.) So I'm not going to argue with anyone who thinks 1920 pixels across is close enough to be considered 2K.

The F900 image is 1440 pixels across on HDCAM tape, so it gets more debatable there.

Having seen Sonnenfeld from Company 3 speak about DI, I believed he was calling HD post 1K.

Yes, it would make sense to post "Collateral" and "Miami Vice" all in HD if the majority of the footage is HD-origination, and "dumb down" the 35mm footage to match that, resoluton-wise. But if he's calling HD "1K", it's a bit confusing.

Yes, it would make sense to post "Collateral" and "Miami Vice" all in HD if the majority of the footage is HD-origination, and "dumb down" the 35mm footage to match that, resoluton-wise. But if he's calling HD "1K", it's a bit confusing.

Stefan often likes to make up his own definition of things and then try to convince everyone else of its validity. Kind of like someone else who often posts here.